Monthly Archives: April 2009

Extraordinary things begin to happen

By Susan | April 29, 2009

“If someone listens, or stretches out a hand, or whispers a kind word of encouragement, or attempts to understand, extraordinary things begin to happen”: Loretta Girzartis
When I was younger, the words “breast cancer” were never, ever said aloud. Fear, ignorance, superstition; whatever the reason, you never said them. Women went into the hospital for biopsies [...]

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Love Our Mother Earth (and she will love you back!)

By Susan | April 20, 2009

Mother’s Day – the human kind – still gets far more attention than the other Mother’s Day — Earth Day. When I started to conceptualize the store and the products that I would carry, I wanted to find as many “earth friendly” options for customers as possible. In some product lines, like tea, there were [...]

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I see bunnies

By Susan | April 11, 2009

Our son believed in Santa and the Easter Bunny far longer than we dreamed he would. We suspected that it was a combination of delight in the possibility of magic and of fear that the presents and candy would disappear the moment doubt was confessed. He even persevered when the “tooth fairy” forgot the payoff [...]

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